At Couchbase Connect '17, I shot a fun demo video of EYE-SYNC, a mobile brain health assessment tool developed by SyncThink. CTO Dan Beeler shares what drives their brain health mission - and why they built a cloud data platform with Couchbase.

Startup growth is never a bad thing - but the strain it puts on an IT team is real. Jason Wu of AdStage told me how AdStage addressed its data scale issues, and why Apache Cassandra-as-a-Database service was the right choice.

Sometimes a good argument brings its own rewards. Such was the case with database management vendor Severalnines, who sent me a sharply-worded pitch about a database-as-commodity debate I started with MariaDB. Severalnines CEO Vinay Joosery brought a different take, questioning the revenge of SQL and raising the issue of cloud lock-in.